Democratick Editorials

Contents

CONTENTS Foreword by Lawrence H. White P A R T 0 N E The Doctrine of Equal Rights True Functions of Government The Reserved Rights of the People Objects of the Evening Post Reply to the Charge of Lunacy The Legislation of Congress Religious Intolerance Direct Taxation The Course of the Evening Post Chief Justice Marshall Prefatory Remarks The Sister Doctrines The True Theory of Taxation Strict Construction Legislative Indemnity for Losses from Mobs The Despotism of the Majority Morals of Legislation The Morals of Politics P A R T T W 0 Separation of Bank and State Bank of United States Small Note Circulation The Monopoly Banking System vii XI 3 7 11 15 19 21 21 24 28 31 35 38 42 43 48 52 55 63 71 74 viii DEMOCRATICK EDITORIALS Uncurrent Bank Notes Fancy Cities Causes of Financial Distress Why Is Flour So Dear? Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents Strictures on the Late Message The Value of Money The Way to Cheapen Flour The Money Market and Nicholas Biddle The Pressure-the Cause of it-and the Remedy Connexion of State with Banking The Crisis The Bankrupt Banks What We Must Do, and What We Must Not "The Foresight of Individual Enterprise" The Safety Fund Bubble Separation of Bank and State The Remedy for Broken Banks "Blest Paper Credit" Questions and Answers The True and Natural System The Bugbear of the Bank Democrats Bank and State Theory and Practice Separation of Bank and State "Specie Basis" The Natural System The Credit System and the Aristocracy The Divorce of Politicks and Banking P A R T T H R E E Abolition Insolence Riot at the Chatham-Street Chapel Governor McDuffie's Message The Abolitionists 83 86 88 94 96 101 105 109 112 115 119 126 132 135 137 138 142 147 149 151 153 158 163 165 170 174 176 180 185 191 193 197 Reward for Arthur Tappan The Anti-Slavery Society Abolitionists Slavery No Evil Progress of Fanaticism An Argument Against Abolition Refuted Commencement of the Administration of Martin Van Buren The Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point "Abolition Insolence" P A R T F 0 U R CONTENTS The Division of Political Classes Despotism of Andrew Jackson The Division of Parties Rich and Poor The Street of the Palaces American Nobility The Inequality of Human Condition A Bad Beginning The Whig Embassy to Washington, and Its Result Right Views Among the Right Sort of People Newspaper Nominations Foreign "Paupers" P A R T F I V E The Principles of Free Trade Monopolies: I "A Little Free-Trade Crazy" Asylum for Insane Paupers Monopolies: II Revolutionary Pensioners Joint-Stock Partnership Law The Ferry Monopoly ix 199 201 204 208 212 219 221 224 228 233 242 246 250 252 254 258 260 265 268 271 277 284 289 293 296 299 301 x DEMOCRATICK EDITORIALS Free Trade Post Office Stock Gambling Weighmaster General State Prison Monopoly Corporation Property Regulation of Coal Free Ferries and an Agrarian Law Thanksgiving Day Municipal Docks Associated Effort The Coal Question The Corporation Question Free Trade Weights and Measures Associated Effort Sale of Publick Lands Manacles Instead of Gyves The Meaning of Free Trade Gambling Laws Free Trade Post Office Free Trade, Taxes, and Subsidies Meek and Gentle with These Butchers The Cause of High Prices, and the Rights of Combination Omnipotence of the Legislature P A R T S I X Literary Property 304 308 312 315 318 322 324 327 332 334 336 338 345 347 350 352 355 360 362 367 370 372 384 Rights of Authors 391 The Rights of Authors 396 Right of Property in the Fruits of Intellectual Labour 403 Index 407 ...